Catalyst delighted to support the New Zealand Open Source Awards

5 October 2018

Catalyst is delighted to again support the New Zealand Open Source Awards (NZOSA) that are being run for the seventh time in 2018. The winners will be announced at a Gala dinner at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Tuesday 23 October 2018.

The Open Source Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding work performed with free and open source software. The awards celebrate the artistic, scientific and social improvements it delivers in New Zealand. The 2018 awards look at the successes over the last two years since the last NZOSA in 2016.

Don Christie, Managing Director of Catalyst stated, “Catalyst is proud to have supported from the first awards in 2007”. He then added “the Open Source Awards are a great way to raise awareness of open source technology and the wider philosophy”.

“It’s truly wonderful to see such a wide range of projects involved. It’s a great showcase and celebration of the work being undertaken in the Open Source space“

The finalists are incredibly varied and include:

Giving women prisoners the tools and opportunity to learn to weave

Whare Hauora sensors for the measurement of healthy homes

The Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language

A database for tracking Kea, plus a tool for documenting Kea sightings

The New Zealand Open Source Awards exist to recognise and promote:

the direct contributions of individuals to free and open source projects or the promotion of free and open source philosophy, and